Zoolook
by Jean Michel Jarre

Zoolook by Jean Michel Jarre
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 5,696th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 76 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (89th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (835th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,696th)

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Jean Michel Jarre bestography

Zoolook is ranked 3rd best out of 33 albums by Jean Michel Jarre on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jean Michel Jarre is Oxygène which is ranked number 904 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,922.

Jean Michel Jarre album bestography « Higher ranked (2,030th)
Equinoxe
This album (5,696th)
Zoolook
Lower ranked (6,147th) »
Les Chants Magnétiques

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 5,696th | 1980s rank: 835th | 1984 rank: 89th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 76 votes)
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03/01/2026 22:35 snailmail500  Ratings distribution  23382/100
 
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11/12/2025 23:45 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100
 
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08/19/2025 00:34 zags7000  Ratings distribution  20,41064/100
 
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05/07/2025 08:57 Nightprowler  Ratings distribution  53281/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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From 11/04/2022 21:34 | #291047
The end of the first song is amazing...all album are great
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From 08/05/2022 20:27 | #288145
The Fairlight album! Due to the cost of the Fairlight, not many artists could afford one, no surprise JMJ had one then. The Fairlight CMI was a very sophisticated sampler for its day any many of the CMI sound banks are still sought after today, particularly vocal/choir samples. The album is years ahead of its time, the way vocal sounds are manipulated and sampled is clever stuff. I love the drums on this album also, Linn LM1, Simmons Drums, really give this album a futuristic feel.
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From 10/19/2018 21:35 | #222770
Incredibly ahead of its time.
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From 01/25/2018 20:42 | #206503
An excellent album. Totally underrated and possibly, dare I say it, better than Oxygene, which makes Zoolook Jarre's best album in my opinion. Way ahead of it's time.
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From 01/16/2016 22:17 | #156778
jean michel jarre is an inventor, a pioneer who released the small effects of records "electronic" and made it a real musical instrument .... there is something universal and obvious today, but when it started, it was not won .. of course, there were already Kraftwerk and disco premises, but Zoolook was to the vanguard that has become mainstream ... with another register I would compare with Bjork: these discs should not have worked and be referred to a small audience, and ultimately it is the other way around ... the mass tastes good times, right time, right place
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